Wait, you like basketball. Basketball players couldn't cut it in hockey for a day, and that's not because of the toughness of it. When basketball players can do their job as well as they do now, but on ice, then maybe we'll talk. Interesting to you or not, hockey is the only major sport which can match the pace of basketball and requires a big skill set in order to excel at it.

Uh....judging the skill of a sport based on how hard it is to do on ice is kinda...well..stupid....sorry